My Dinner with Andre was suggested by our member Chrysi, who writes: 'I wonder how does this NYC film resonate with a London audience?'

In this captivating and philosophical film directed by Louis Malle, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with his friend the theater director André Gregory at a restaurant on New York’s Upper West Side, and the pair proceed through an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional about love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York–honed personas, Shawn and Gregory, who also cowrote the screenplay, dive in with introspective intellectual gusto, and Malle captures it all with a delicate, artful detachment. A fascinating freeze-frame of cosmopolitan culture, My Dinner with Andre remains a unique work in cinema history.

Please note, the screening on Monday 6 April is our free members' screening, while the one on Tuesday 14 April is a regular public screening, which is open to the general public.